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These small robots are inspired by origami
Sung is developing design software to enable people without an engineering background to create custom origami robots that can move on the ground. The tool, called Interactive Robogami, is based on a database of robot parts which users can combine together like a “virtual Lego set.”

Sung is developing design software to enable people without an engineering background to create custom origami robots that can move on the ground. The tool, called Interactive Robogami, is based on a database of robot parts which users can combine together like a “virtual Lego set.”

These small robots are inspired by origami

Through origami-inspired engineering, one researcher hopes to not only create rapidly fabricable robots, but also build intuitive design software that enables others who may not be trained in engineering to create their own personalized robots.

Ali Sundermier

Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’

    • Teaching Robots to ‘Feel with Their Eyes’

    An engineering Ph.D. student is leading a project that builds up a database of surfaces so that robots may better identify what objects are made of and how to handle them.

    Ali Sundermier

    Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars
    Penn Students Design an Ice Drilling Robot for Mars

    Penn Engineering students Wanda Lipps, Gautam Nagaraj, and Michael Gromis, all members of the Mars Water Horizons team, use a robot they built to drill through a container of soil, clay and ice. The goal is to create something that will be able to extract ice from the surface of Mars, then melt and filter it into drinkable water that could also be used as rocket fuel.

    Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars

    The team’s robot is designed to drill through soil on Mars, extract ice and clay, and then melt the ice and filter it into drinkable water.

    Ali Sundermier

    Penn Engineering Offers an Online MicroMasters in Robotics

    • Penn Engineering Offers an Online MicroMasters in Robotics

    Beginning in April, Penn Engineering and the GRASP Laboratory will offer a new series of online courses in robotics as part of edX’s “MicroMasters” program.

    Evan Lerner

    Teachers get a crash course in robotics
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    Teachers get a crash course in robotics

    For six weeks during her summer vacation, Henry C. Lea School’s Latoya Landfair spent hours each day in Penn’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory. Studying alongside nine other School District of Philadelphia middle school teachers, Landfair was able to learn about computer vision—a field she plans to introduce to her seventh-grade math students this year.

    Lauren Hertzler

    UTRC gift establishes robotics fellowship at University of Pennsylvania

    • UTRC gift establishes robotics fellowship at University of Pennsylvania

    United Technologies Research Center, the research and innovation arm of United Technologies Corp., has given $250,000 gift to the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science to establish a fellowship in robotics.

    Evan Lerner